MODERN TIMES
Between the horse and the tractor
falls the shadow of too much light
Molecules molested day and night
and the milky way has turned
from whole to skim to gone
Category: String Too Short To Save
A FUNNY STORY
A FUNNY STORY
In the dream I say to brother Wally
you’re going to have to tell the story
or the milk I drank way back then
is going to come out my nose again
MRI-KU
MRI-KU
Brain science woes
they are looking at poetry
reading it as prose
A FROSTY FRIDAY
A FROSTY FRIDAY
The cat comes in
on little fog feet
steps softly to the center
of your best Persian rug
and arches up her grassy lunch
DISSECTING THE FROG OF WAR
DISSECTING THE FROG OF WAR
And when did the buffalo
driven over the cliff
become the lemming leaping
as if the decision was his own
WISDOM TEETH
WISDOM TEETH
Eskimo candy
is what we called
the marrow in the bones
If we had learned from them
instead of them from us
we’d all still have our teeth
TRICK OR SWEET
TRICK OR SWEET
See the lantern with gap-toothed grin
and something white there in the wind
Children who fear ghosts and dentists
should not be out tonight
SIMILAR GENDER MARRIAGE WOES
SIMILAR GENDER MARRIAGE WOES
How can there possibly be
any characterological growth in a system
where the toilet seat is always up or down
MAN CAVE
MAN CAVE
Since the sun
can be blinding at times
and women intense as well
Man must turn as Plato says
and take a little time to watch
shadows and sports upon the wall
DIARY
DIARY
If I’d had a diary
I could have called it Dear
and told it all the stories
that no-one cared to hear